Volume I, Part 3, Chapter 16
Andrei seizes the standard and is wounded; the sky reveals the vanity of glory.
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The disastrous Russo-Austrian defeat where Andrei's heroic charge ends with his epiphany under the infinite sky — one of the most famous war scenes in literature.
Volume I, Part 3, Chapter 19
Napoleon stands over the wounded Andrei, whom Andrei now sees as a small, vain man.
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